In the Bermuda Triangle, 20 ships per year disappear without a trace; in the Bermuda Triangle, 20 ships per year disappear without a trace.
A strange atmospheric phenomenon has destructive power
Hexagonal clouds over the Bermuda Triangle are visible in images from space. How they are formed, meteorologists cannot really explain. But they marvel at the phenomenon - and blame it for the disasters in the area.
The area of the Bermuda triangle is 5 million hectares
The Bermuda Triangle is an area of about 500 thousand square kilometers in the Atlantic between the coast of Florida, a small island in Bermuda and an island in Puerto Rico. It was first mentioned by writer Vincent Gaddis in 1946, when in an article for Argosi magazine he talked about the strange disappearance of Flight 19. Since then, the Bermuda Triangle has been considered a mystically dangerous place where ships and planes mysteriously disappear. And they really disappear: planes - in dozens, ships - in hundreds. And scientists believe there are physical reasons for this. Trying to find them.
Hexahedral clouds have attracted attention by Dr Steve Miller, a satellite meteorologist at Colorado State University. Radar measurements showed that the wind speed under the hexagons reaches 280 kilometers per hour. The wind blows in gusts - sometimes it falls from top to bottom like air bombs, heaves waves 15 meters high, which, superimposing on each other, can soar even higher.
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Hexagonal clouds over the Bermuda Triangle
Less harm from small hexagons. Small bombs Ka
Where the hexagonal clouds come from is not known. But according to Steve, they appeared suddenly - like bombers, bomb the water surface with their air bombs and sink ships. And if an airplane gets hit, it will be drowned, thrown sharply down.
By the way, an equally mysterious hexagon was found on Saturn. For more than a quarter of a century - since the time it was photographed by the Voyager 1 probe - the phenomenon has not disappeared. It is, of course, incomparably larger than the Bermuda hexagons - it stretches for 25 thousand kilometers. But it also "bombs", penetrating the atmosphere to a depth of 100 kilometers. However, there is nothing to drown on Saturn. Otherwise …
Saturn has its own hexagon. Maybe there is also its own Bermuda Triangle?
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Gas bomb from below
Before the hypothesis of "air bombs" falling from the sky, the hypothesis of "gas bombs" rising from the bottom was considered the most plausible. Its authors are Australian oceanographers - Professor Joseph Monaghan and his colleague David May from Monash University in Melbourne.
Scientists suggested that methane hydrates accumulated on the ocean floor can be released, forming giant bubbles, which, expanding even more, rise to the surface. And there they can explode.
Monaghan and May, using computer simulations, showed that any ship caught in a methane bubble can instantly lose its buoyancy and disappear into the depths.
A giant gas bubble, rising higher - into the atmosphere - is capable of shooting down an aircraft.
Scientists have tested their theory in an experiment - in a pool with model ships. The model ship went to the bottom if it fell into the space between the middle of the bubble and its edge. The bubble located further away did not have the "sinking power". But it may have poisoned the crew.
Ships may be drowning in methane bubbles
There is also an alternative hypothesis, according to which gas escapes from the bottom in small bubbles. And it creates an impressive spot of "soda" near the surface, which has less buoyancy than water without bubbles. And the result, as with a big bubble: the ship loses its buoyancy and sinks.
All hypotheses look very exotic. And it is unconditionally difficult to believe in them. Moreover, no one has seen methane bubbles. But the hexagonal clouds really exist - you can see it in the pictures. What if the deadly force is still in them?
Vladimir LAGOVSKY